If you’re looking for something spooky to stream this Halloween, Amazon Prime Video definitely has you covered. For £5.99 a month, the site’s horror line-up is frighteningly diverse, covering everything from recent remakes and cult comedy to modern and old classics.
We round up the best horror movies included with Amazon Prime, some spooky, some silly – all of them perfect for Halloween. Head this way for an up-to-date list of what’s new on Amazon Prime Video UK.
A darkly comic giallo-esque romance, torturously literalising all the dynamics of S&M, while accommodating the persistence of trauma.
A haunting meditation on desire and devotion, this is one of the best horrors of the past 15 years.
One of the greatest movies ever made, Tobe Hooper’s seminal film changed American horror cinema forever.
This haunting study of family grief and inherited fear is a heart-wrenching, heart-racing horror.
John Krasinski's terrifyingly taut survival thriller is so good you'll be shouting about it for weeks.
Steven Spielberg's influential summer blockbuster is still swimming with tension.
Jennifer Kent's storybook horror brings a devastating sadness to the genre's scares.
This razor-sharp throwback to the 70s and 80s cements Ti West as a horror director to be reckoned with.
Nia DaCosta's artful horror sequel reflexively rewrites both the traditions of its own franchise and the white narratives of American history.
A teenage daughter has a supernatural experience and refuses to eat in Ruth Paxton's creepy and unsettling horror debut.
Bravely bold and modern, David Lowery's dark, handsome Arthurian epic is a bewitching trip of bravery and cowardice.
Martyrs maestro Pascal Laugier delivers another horror story of trauma, delusion and escape.
Fabrice Eboué's slyly funny and mildly shocking comedy offers a taste of France's shifting food chain.
Taiki Waititi's vampire comedy is moving, clever and mercilessly quick, but most of all, it's bleeding funny.
Splice gives its horrible theme a twisted heart. As freaky as it is fascinating.
This funny and neurotic “erotic thriller” remix savages Hollywood’s toxic men.
Visceral, violent and distress, this is an expertly executed mix of Western and horror.
Silly but serious, this 80s horror pastiche is a cult film in every sense of the word.
This small-town coming-of-ager regenders the werewolf myth as a hilariously icky exploration of the monstrous feminine.
A classy horror picture with likeable characters and a nightmarish sense of adventure.
Zoë Kravitz's unsettling thriller about power and abuse is a dark, gripping roller coaster.
Imagine Friends... if Central Perk were an inter-dimensional portal to existential terror.
Balancing family emotion with military action, this ambitious, gritty horror sequel is a worthy, scary successor.
This fast-paced, puzzle-driven thriller is a fun, fiendishly executed ride.
This intense teen romance rings with earnest chemistry and classic horror - also, baseball.
Hugh Grant is truly chilling in this nail-biting but surprisingly cerebral horror about the power of belief and doubt.
This lurid inverted slasher delivers on expectations with an unhinged glee.
You'll hate every second - but you won't stop watching this horribly gripping thriller.
This ambitious micro-budget sci-fi will blow your fragile little mind.
This collage of The Shining conspiracy theories is a bonkers yet fascinating study of how art finds meaning with its audience.
Surreal, scary, funny and freaky, Ari Aster's operatic folk horror is a trip that's worth taking.
An escaped lion chomps its way through Amsterdam in this highly enjoyable creature feature.
This supremely suspenseful babysitter-from-hell horror marks out Sarah Bolger as a talent to watch.
Gore Verbinski's slippery horror is enjoyably silly and genuinely creepy.
A welcome addition to the zom-com genre with a star-making central performance from Maria Thayer.